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Try it with demo mode

Personal Best uses your workout history, so it can look a bit sparse on a review device or if you don't have many workouts. Demo mode gives you pre-made, curated workouts with nice data.

To enter demo mode, go to Settings > version number > Secret demo mode. Or visit personalbest://demo on a device with Personal Best installed.

What is Personal Best?

Personal Best is a workout tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It helps you plan and track workouts, and gives you all sorts of insights afterwards.

🩷 Powered by Apple Health (a.k.a. HealthKit)

Works with the apps you already use to record workouts. Zero setup, just connect to Apple Health and you’re all set.

🎯 Goals and coaching

Set goals like 3 workouts every week or 4 hours of cycling every week and Personal Best will coach you, with tracking, reminders, and suggested workouts. Plan workouts ahead of time like “a 5km run today” and it’ll track how you did compared to what you committed to.

📹 Replay

Scrub through any workout like a video, with an animated route map, pace and heart rate charts, and an integrated photo gallery from the moments you captured along the way. See a demo »

Turn your workouts into images for social media, with editorial-quality design and customisation.

📊 Go deep on stats

Leaderboards so you can track your progress. See your calorie burn compared to foods, your distance to well-known routes, and your elevation to famous landmarks. If a stat exists, it’s probably in Personal Best.

🌍 Works everywhere

Personal Best works on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It comes with lots of widgets and complications for keeping score when the app isn’t running.

🫂 Respects you

Minimal tracking. No ads. Good accessibility.

📱 A good iOS citizen

Supports everything a good iOS app should do, like widgets, Siri, Spotlight, lots of App Intents, Shortcuts, resizability, dark mode, keyboard shortcuts… you get the idea.

What’s the story behind it?

I’m Shaun, an indie developer from London, UK. I started Personal Best as a small hobby project, and I enjoyed it so much that I just carried on building it. It’s now had over 500,000 downloads and has an active and passionate user base.

It’s regularly featured by Apple, both on the App Store and also at developer events as an example of best practice.

Questions and enquiries

I’m available to any journalists, bloggers or podcasters wishing to discuss Personal Best or independent iOS app development. Get in touch via email to schedule something.